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GENBBAL NEWS ITBMB.
Right Rev. J. J. Keene, Bishop of Richmond
Ya., will be oonseorated in the Baltimore Ca
thedral on the 16th of June.
Mayor Kane of Baltimore was reoently re
selved Into the Catholic Church of whiot hit
wife has ever been a devoted member.
Switserland is suffering greatly from bnsi
sese depression. The state of Europe die
eourages travel, and the Swise hotels are in a
Wyr poor way.
The Rev. A. E. P. Albrt, pastor of a color
ad congregation in the town of Horme has in
sugersted the total abstinence movement
smong his people.
;he Supreme Court of Massachusetts has do
sided thata note given for a churcb subecrip
lion does not carry with it an obligation to pay,
since it is given without consideration.
The residence and demesne lands of Marino,
sear Dublin, the property of the Earl of
Charlemont, have been purchased for £.,260
by Cardinal Culle., who intends to erect a
dies home thereon.
t an early closing associatio meeting held
mn London lately it wars stated tbhat while
artisans work about fifty-two boors a week.
shop asistants (they are never in England
dignified by the name of clerk,) work eighty
and ninety.
Lord Beaconsfield recently wrote to a gen
tleman in Birmlngham that the English mili
tary preparations were actually necessary, war
or no war, as the tenure of India was directly
Involved through the strong foothold gained
by Russia in Turkey.
Gov. Irwin of California does not believe in
Aseging on Good Friday. He reprieved John
oounk, a murderer sentenced to be hanged on
that day, giving as a reason "a respect for the
religious sentiments of a very large number of
citizens, that a revered relgions holiday
should not be profaned by fixing nupon it as a
day for the infliction of capital punish.
ment."
Hon. J. H. Anklen, who represents the s3d
Loualaina District in Congrees, is the youngest
member of that body, being only 2'J years old.
ie is a native of Nashville, Tenn., and was
educated at Belmont, the summer home of his
parents, who were Louisiana people. lie grad.
sated at Burlington college, after which he
went to Europe and took degrees at two of the
:niversities there.
Toe Chinese compan'es of Ban Francisco
have met with a defeat at the threshold of
theirattempt to make citizens of their wards,
Judge Sawyer, of the United Circuit foair Cali
f ornia, having decided that "Chinamen are not
white persons within the meaning of the term
as used in the naturalization laws." The case
will, of course, be carried t3 the Supreme
Court. Under Judge Sowyer's decision negroes,
as well as Chinamen, cannot be natoralizsd.
The islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Anrigny,
and Bark, in the British Channel, which have
belonged to England since the time of Wal
Iiam the Conqueror, still preserve the old
b'rench of that period as the language of the
peasantry. IThe modern French is the language
of the educated classes, though English is
spoken, end the official language of the courts
and governing bodies is French An attempt
was lately made to substitute English, blit it
was strongly resisted, and finally relinquished.
The Western Union Telegraph Company now
awn over 200,000 miles lot wire, wheress, when
the Ite William Orton became President it
ewned but 45,2"Jl miles. They had then 2 26U
asfoes, now over HO000. This year the number
of messages forwarded will exceed 30.000,000,
whiie then they were but , -F79 2,2. The
rofltshave increased over halfa million dol
are per annum. The average cost of trans
milseon per message then was sixty-three
:ents, whereas it is now but twenty nine
oents.
NearRocheatown, in theo county Cork, Ire
land, is on island called Ilol, Island, which got
this name in a singular way. At the revoc'
1;on ,f the edictof Nantes, M. I Ia Maine, a
iench Ilonguenot, sought refuge in C(irk, an~
became so succesfIIl nu a dancing IOaster tha l
he was at length I ,!il to ipurchltase a smra:ll
island hitherto kownu as Ratland frui itre
swarming with rate. lire he built hand
aome :iouse and laid out charming grounds,
The sailors and boatioin persisted in calliing it
3op Island, in allusion to its owner's profee
,inn, and that name it has retained.
For some time past large q lanntitis of No w
eastle (England) coal have been iaimported tuo I
Boston at lower freights than coal is often
brought into that port from the l'ennsyl
rania mine'. This arises from the o'osing of
ste Russian grain ports, whereby steamers mre
diverted into carry ing American grain to Eu
rope, and bringing coil here, which cells at
$ t80 a ton. Toe ]1 ston Journal of Commerce
says: "To show how curiously trade changes,
it may be stated that about the time of the
gea~t fire in Boston a certain house hero was
Bgering as to sending a oargo of Cumberland
coal to England, and only a shilling a ton
stood against the feasibility of the venture."
The war spectacles at the East of London
thea'ras are increasing in mefinitude and in
Seret. In some of them over 1 000 auxiliaries
are employed. At Canterbury Hall, where the
"Battle of Plevna" still holds the boards, the
audiences are enormous and the applause un
stinted. The drill of the soldiers is described
as terfect. They go through the manoenvres
and their exorcises as if the) oelonged to a crack
regilment, and so thoroughly do they enter into
the spirit of their parts, that men with canes
have to be stationed behind the scenes to pre
-'ut the rival armies from falling on each
other in earnest so soon as the curtain falls.
After the "battle" there is an exhibition of por
traits of distirg lished people from a magic
lantern. Mr. Gldstone is decidedly not pop
ular at muaic halls ; his presentruent is usually
the signal for a storm of groans, which are etx
abanged for cheers when the scene shows a
Lkeness of Lord Beaoonsfield.
A poor woman in )Denmark, tt.e wife of a
laborer, past lilty, observing a few miicnths ag,
three children who had fallen through the c,
on a lake, rushed into the wrater, nd at tile
animinent peril of her own ife reiooned th.i
children. The King decided that this act of
braver s.ha.hi not pass unrewarded. T'ho
woman was slet up to town from the ouuntry;
a oom wis preparredl for her in the IRoyal
'alace, where Lhe datyed a ooUl)ile days to sO0
the eights of Copenhagen, and she received
from the hands of the King, in the presence of
She Royal family, the imedal and ribbon for
nivil acts of bravery, being the tirst woman in
Denmark who has received this honor. The
King seuored places for her and her famnily in
the RBsyal Tuatre, where she was the observ
edofall observers. Of any more substautial
.empenstion for her aotof bravery there is no
record.
A large party, including a number of mer
chants and manufacturers of London, Man
shester and other English cities, arrived in
New York on Monday, on the steamer City of
Serlin, their purpose being to scatter in differ
eat direotions for a tour of the United rtatee,
laspecting the great resonrces of the country.
Mr. J. U. White, of Bounthport, left immediate
ly upon arrival for Texas. liis visit to this
sountry is for the ?urpoee of establishing an
English colony in Texas. .le represents two
eompanles. One of these is the "Texas Middle
Class Emigration Company. Limited," repre
senting a capital of £I0,000, and having as its
object the loaostion of crtaint lands for Mon
•ation as a colony by the middle classes of
Noglish sooety. The other is the "Texas
Land and Investment Company, Limited."
with a caplital of £100,000, which is said to be
a enafe investment for the capital of the mid
ae elases.
EXCITING DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF
COMmONS.
THE BAD EBRL'8 CONDUCT EXPOSED.
Lord Leltrlm's" Home Rule" Defenders.
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ThE REPORT1RS TITRINEI OUT-TH HSECRET
SITThG.
MR. CLADSTONE INSULTED.
On Friday night week, the 12th of April,
Mr. O'Donnell brought forward his prom
ised motion in reference to Lord Leitrim,
and thereby gave rise to a remarkable
scene in the House of Commons. The
Dublin Freeman's report begins as follows :
Mr. O'Donnell rose to call attention to
the action of the Government in Donegal
with reference to the murder of the late
Lord Leitrim, and to move that it is uncon
stitutional, unsuited to promote the ends
of jnutice, and calculated to foster diebe- I
lief in the impartiality of the law. He said
-I de not know that I could better bring I
the facts of this case before an audience
which is so largely composed of English 1
gentlemen than by supposing an imaginary
case, which, with the substitution of a few .
names of persons and places, may easily
afterwards be applied to the case of this I
deplorable murder in Donegal, and to the I
manner in which the Government are car- I
rying on the inquiry for the discovery of e
the assassins. 1 would ask the House to I
imagine that on some mornio.r the news r
appeared in the London papers that a ter- I
rible outrage had occurred in some quiet t
vale of Cuamberland, in the midst of a pop- a
ulation conspicuous for their law abiding
virtues, consapicuous for their patient in- t
dustry, and conspicnous for the practice of I
the duties of family and civil life. I will t
further ask the House to suppose that this a
landlord in Cumberland, accompanied by t
two servants, had been suddenly attacked
in a lonely part of the country and had s
been Eliot down, and not only he but his t
casual assistants and servants ruthlessly a
murdered along with him. Such an oc- t
currence as that happening in Cumberland e
would have riveted the attention of Eng- s
land; but if on further inquiry it was dis- c
covered that while no portion of Cumber- r
land was more conspicuous for its orderly
virtues and for the absence of vice and
crime, yet nevertheless that that portion
of what was believed to be a happy Eng- P
lish county had been placed at the mercy
of one who, by the lamentable shortcomings .
of the English land law, had been enabled
to execute the caprices of some baron of a
semi-barbaric stage of civilization by means
of the chicanery of nineteenth century
legal procedure; if it had been discovered d
that during a quarter of a century these
Cumberland dalesmen had been exposed to
the tyranny of a mental torture, that they o
had been in the power of a man of iron 1
will and ruthless passion, who practically c
exercised absolute power; if it was known a
on inquiry that the villages had been clear- p
ed, that the valleys in some cases had been n
swept clear of their inhabitants, that over
all was hanging the doom of eviction or of ,
some punishment akin to eviction ; and if, ,
sir, it was known that in spite of all that I
continrual torture, these wholesale evictions a
and that systematic extermination, the a
relatios:a between the landlord and his
Cumberlaind tenantry had never been c
stained by one xctrs3 of an agrarian cehar
actor on the bide of this unfortunate ten
antry; if it were further ascertained that a
the on!y case- in which that Cumberland L
landlord had ibeen exposed to outrage, at- c
tempted violence, and attempted assa
aination, was when his life was attempted ,
by the uncle of the humble girl whom he u
had dishonoted, it would have flashed with
the strength of conviction upon the minds
of all men that in such a long-tried and
law-abiding community, whom no extrem p
ity of suffering during twenty-five years L
bad goaded to a violation of the law-it
would have struck every Englishman
speaking with his brother Englishman that 0
it would be in the highest degree unlikely e
that these peasants had entered into aa
wide-spread conapiracy-of a mere agrarian b
character, and that the murder which had
taken place would have required an enor- v
mous amount of proof to bring it within o
the category of mere attempts against life t
and property. If, on further examination, a
it was shown that this landlord was known
throughout all the. Northern counties as n
the "bad earl"- i,
Sir A. Gordon.-I beg to ask, sir, if this t
is language which is fit to be addressed to i
the House of Commons I Ii
Mr. Parnell.-May I ask you, sir, to pro- t
teat the privi:ege of speech, when that
speech conveys the truth.
Mr. O'Donnell, resuming, said that If
such a man had been noted for his debauch
ery- I
Mr. King-Harman.-I ask the hen. mom- i
ber to say whether he can give proofs of I
what hlie says, or whether lie is maligning
the memory of the dead oearl on a matter I
of which hie has no kuowledge t
I)r. Keesaly.--Thlere seems to be a sys
toeniatic attnlipt to interfere with the free- a
dinei and independence of Parliamentary
spe tch. t
The Speakr--The language whlich the a
hlin. Ii, iuber lhrs addressed to the Hlouse is
to be deprecated as being very strong, at L
the iiuiio tim,, I am not prepared to say
that ic wn not within his right in using
the expressions hlie dlid. t
M. Parnell.-Hear, hear.
Mr. O'Donnell, resuming.-I have en
deavored to peush my forbearance to the I
utmost in the case of the hon. member for
Sligo. What I state it will be for this
Hlouse to consider the value of at the con
clusion of my speech. I am endeavoring
at present to bring the broad questions of
right, of law, and of justice before the
House. I have carefolly taken up a sort
of imaginary case, and this House will be
able to tind out whether that which I have c
imagined with regard to Cumberland may
be a pirallel capable of application else
where. Sir, if it was found that this
landlord, known throughout all the north
err country of England as the "bad earl,"
lhad carried on these practices of debauch t
cry, sand had carried them on not only by
means of the vulgar wiles of seduction, but
by means of his authority and power as a
lanIdlord-by means of the power of evic
tion so plUentifully placed in his hands; if
it was known through all the country bey
ond the possibility of a doubt, commented a
opon in the public press, denied nowhere,
Sthat he had placed the alternative of evie
tion or -dishonor before the peasant girls
on his property, and that when his infa
mous advances had been slighted he had
carried out his threat of evictlon
Mr. King Harman-Mr. Speaker, I beg
to say that I see strangers.
The Speaker-The Hon. member having
taken notice of strangers, I am bound to
take the course I have taken upon aformer
occasion, and to put the question to the
House whether strangers ahall be ordered
to withdraw. As many as are of that opin
ion say "aye."
There being a load volume of "ayes,"
the Speaker put the negative, to which
Mr. O'Donnell responded.
The House then divided, when the num
bers were-Ayes, 57, Noes, 12, Majority
45.
The Strangers' Gallery had been cleared
during the division, but the reporters re
mained. When Mr. O'Donnell resumed
his address there were cries of '"Order,"
"Strangers in the House."
The Speaker then said-TI.e Sergeant
will clear the galleries of strangers.
The ,abate was then resumed in private,
with the exception that the numerous
attendance in the Ladies' Gallery remained
undisturbed, the Ladies' Gallery being
technically "out of the House."
After the strangers had been excluded,
Mr. O'Donnell read extracts from the
Frccman's Journal, as the popular daily
paper of Ireland; the Londonderry Stand
ard, as a leading Presbyterian organ; the
Belfast Morning Netce, an independent
journal; and the Irishman, the organ of
the Nationalist party, in corroboration of
the statements he had made; all of them,
he said, being unanimous in relating the
same facts aA to the licentiousness of the
late earl. He condemned assassination
most strongly, but begged to remind the
House that it was quite possible that the
murder of the Earl of Leitrim was not an
agrarian offence, but based on motives of
private vengeance, and he protested against
the conduct of the GovornmreLt in assum- 4
ing, before investigation, trial, or convic
tion, that this offence had been committed
as the result of agrarian conspiracy. He,
therefore, objected to the branding of a
whole barony with the stigma of member
ship of a murderous conspiracy against t
the rights of property, while it still re
mained unproven. What were the incen- c
tives to the act I The action of the Gov- 7
ernment had given the tone to public J
sentiment, and "the murderous tendencies
of the Irish peasantry" were now the com
mon theme of English journals.
Mr. Parnell, in supporting the motion, t
went over the facts of the case, and also
pointed out that there was quite sufficient
ground existing for attributing the com
mission of the act to motives of private
vengeance. The who!e public opinion of
Ireland decidedly declared in that direction.
Mr. King Harman said there were no a
proofs of that. e
Mr. Parnell said if the hon. member a
doubted the proofs supplied by the leading
journals of the country he was welcome to
ask for a Parliamentary inquiry. For Lis
own part, as the House very well knew, he t
had no power "to send for persons, papers, o
or records," but the hon. member could e
ask for a Parliamentary committee if he n
wished. The fact was, the conduct of the t
late earl was simply admitted on all hands. b
He warned the House that the manner in
which Irish tenants were abandoned to the
worst caprices of men like the late Lord
Leitrim tended to destroy all hope in con
stitutional agitation among the Irish people,
and to lead the wilder spirits to think that f
the only way in which Irish public opinion I
could ever irnfloence the British legislature
ws. w len ;t winged the bullet of the
aspassin. It was a terrible and a deplor- h
able state of nffsirs, and he implored the
House to do something to win back the
confidence of the penasantry, and not
wantonly to insult them by asesuming them
to be guilty of crimes that were utterly
unproved, and with regard to which the
probabilities lay all in the other direction. i
The prcceedings during the remainder of the t
private sitting are reported as follows in the
Lonrdon Obserrrr :
Mr. King-Harman made a strong complaint
of what he looked on as an unprovoked attack
on the character and actions of the murdered
earl-an attack which was unsupported by
any ascertained facts, and ought never to have
been countenanced in that House.
Dr. Ward protested against the way in
which that question bad been raised. Is had v
ostensibly been brought forward on oonstitu
tional grounds ; but it had taken the form of
an indecent attack upon the dead. Why was
it so brought on t Was it in the lanterests of
the tenants ? It was notorious that it was
not so, because it was brought on at the most
inconvenient time, when Parliament was cer- c
tain not to listen to it, and was sure to regard S
it as an apology for assassination. He firmly
believed that this, like many other motions of r
the honorable members for Dungarvan and a
Meath, was not for the purpose of promoting t
great Irish questions, for they brought them
on when they knew the result could only be
injurions, but solely in order to acquire for
themselves a notoriety which in this case
looked very like infamy. It was a sad thing. t
indeed, to tind that members of Parliament re- a
quired to have recourse to the expedient of e
endeavoring to found a reputation ond apolo- 1
gies for assaseination.
Mr. Parnell and Mr ')Donnell rose to order.
)r. Ward saidl they had seen that night
what almost looked Ilke an apology fur assas
sination. 1
Mr. O'Donnell again rose to order, and said
theoharge brought against bios by Dr. Ward
was an 'infatmous lie."
Mr. Prnmoll also contented ,that D)r. Ward
had been out of order.
The Speaker, however, ruled that nothing
improper had been said by Dr. Word.
The Chancellor of the Excbhequer remarked
that an expression had been used which he
thought the House would insist on being with.
drawn. It was that in which the member for
Duogarvan had charged another member of
havring been guilty of an infamous lie.
After a good deal of oproar and contention, t
Mr. O'D)onnell agreed to withdraw the objco- I
tionable remark. Dr. Ward, continuing, re
marked that air. Parnell said it was a hollow
fallaoy to recommend constitutional means,
hobut be was not surprised at its being so if that
was the hon. gentleman's idea of what were i
constitutional means. lIe believed these pro- a
needings were taken with a deliberate purpose,
and were intended to appeal to the nnoorsti
totional and revolutionary section, which the
hon. members, however they might foster, had
not the courage to belong to.
Mr. Parnell again called the bo. imember to
order, but the Speaker again ril, di that there
had been nothing irregular in Dr. Ward'sa re- I
marks. t
Dr. Ward, contironi:ig, said thins brd come r
to a sad pass when rmen callig theUiselves
Irish patrions draggeod the caouse of Ireland
through blood and mire in order to build up
their own reputations.
For the third time the ho-. member was
called to order, with the same result.
Mr. M'Carthy Downing, as an Irish member,
epressed himself deeply paioed at the scene I
he bad been foreed to witness that evening.
He assared the House that he had done all he
a"o to prvent Mr. O'Donnell from propoeing
his motion, and he felt bound to express his
deep regret that any Irishman oould submit
suhob a proposal within a few days only of the
three fellow creatures having found a bloody 1
grave, aud while the adminls-ratore ofjustioe e
were engaged in the endeavor to discover the s
perpetrators of the abominable crime. He had
always been an advocate of the Irish tenants, I
but could never lend himself to asserting their
rights by violence or intimidation. He did
not think, however, that the murder of Lord
Leitrim was of an agrarian character, and it
might have arisen from other causes. glanced i
at by Mr. O'Donnell and Mr. Parnell. Of course C
it might turn out in the end that it was agra- I
rian, but at the present stage the Government f
was evidently giving a partial complexion to t
the case, and he was quite sure that no mur
der, however terrible, in England could entail
on an entire neighborhood of innocent people
the stigma and the penalties inflicted.
Mr. Gibson condemned the course that had
been taken by the supporters'of the motion.
The Marquis of Hartington, spoke against
the action of Mr. O'Donnell and Mr. Parnell;
but both he and Mr. Gladstone confined their
remarks to the statement that they votes with
the minority on the question of the exclusion of
t he press. They saw no reason why the question g
should not be publicly discusosed. They com
plained of the hooting to which they had been
subjected by the Conservative members as
something unparalleled in the history of Parlia
ment. The words of Lord Harrington were C
sreoially strong in resentment of the insult 0
ofared to him and his right hon. friend. It
The Chancellor of the Exohequer said the h
conducot of the bon. members for Dungtrvan o
and Meath, could only be regarded with repro- t
bation. He had never used such language be
fore, and he was sorry to do it now; but be was
glad to see members from Ireland, and more
especially those at the otherside of the House, P
taking the manly course of protesting against ti
such conduct. He regretted, on the whole, a]
that the press had been excluded, because he e:
thought it would have been well if the h
speeches of those gentlemen had been pub- a
lished.
Mr. O'Con nor Power supported the resolution,
and said it was no use attempting to evade the w
question which had been brought before the G
House by the hon. members for Dungarvan and V
Meath. All sides condemned assassination C
equally ; but panio measures and superfluous I
coercion ware not calculated to promote the aI
interests of justice, and the manner in which a o
crime took place in a special locality should
not be seized hold of to punish the innocent or
made a handle to fix the stigma of murderous
conspiracy on whole colasses of the Irish people. P
That was not likely to create confidence in the -
justice of the law. ti
Dr. Kenealy defended the whole of the an- cl
tion and language of Mr. O'Donnell and Mr. ti
Parnell. it
Sir W. M. Harcourt remarked that it bad
been lef; to Dr. Kenealy to defend the mon
strous language of those two hon gentlemen.
What had occurred had had the s ffect of show
ing how unfounded were the claims of those at
members to speak on behalf of Ireland. el
Mr. Callan joined in the condemnation of M
the conduct of Mr. Parnell and Mr. O'Donnell.
Sir Patrick O'Brien said it was all a matter ei
of taste. He had been in the House twenty- al
six years, and had never seen such an example R
of bhad taste.
Mr. David Plunkett passed same severe
criticism on the conduct of the minority. He m
had heard language from the member for Meath ti
which, be thought, oould only be tolerated by B
the foul rabble which had hooted the corpse 4
of the late earl in Dublin the other day. He si
expressed his delight at finding otheeIrish il
members repudiating the language of those T
two gentlemen, and hoped that they would not t
be contaminated by that policy any longer.
A division was then called for, but was not 0o
taken, as Mr. O'Donnell did not press b:s mo- et
tion, and the reporters were readmitted at ei
half-pat twelve o'clock. A
A correspondent of the Srtion sends the di
following account of what happened when G
Dr. Ward was called to order :
B th Mr. Parnell and Mr. O'Donnell rose T
to call Dr. Ward to order amid terrific i
hooting from tte Tories. tE
Raising his voice, Mr. O'Donnell ex- pi
claimed- 'Any suggestion that I counten- tI
anc- assateiration is a foul and infamous P
lie." I I
Dr. Ward made some explanat;on which et
was ruled by the Speaker to clear him of hi
having imputed approval of assassination gi
to any hon. members, and called upon Mr. to
O'Donnell to withdraw his statement ac- ti
cordingly, as it seemed to imply unparlia- w
mentary conduct to Dr. Ward. as
Mr. O'Donnell replied that as Dr. Ward to
was held by the Speaker to have explained al
himself in a Parliamentary manner, of di
course he bowed to the decision of the bi
chair. The cheering for Dr. Ward and the in
hooting at Messrs Parnell and O'Donnell hi
were continued during the whole episode. et
The London correspondent of the Free- lii
man thus describes the insult offered to Mr.
Gladstone by the infuriated Tories: th
The comparatively full and almost ex- at
clusive report I was able to give you on Pt
Saturday morning of the proceedings at the al
"private" sitting of the House of Commons P1
requires supplementing but on one point, th
and that was the marked insult offered to ar
the Liberal leaders who voted against the th
exclusion of the press. The scene when as
the Tories found that Mr. Gladstone, Lord a,
IHartington; and Mr. Lowe were voting in fry
the negative was most disgraceful. Those pi
about to vote with the "ayes" had all pass- di
ad into the lobby, and the glass door was A
locked behind them as usual by the officials. tii
Instead, however, of moving on to record al
their votes at the other end, a considerable tli
number remained watching at the door p
looking into the Opposition lobby. It was t
soon seen what they were waiting for. As V
the ordinary memibers who might have be
been expected to support Mr. O'Donnell's tt
motion pDassed they were received with no th
more than usual mianifestations, and it was
only when Mr. Lowe and Lord Hartington P
appeared that the Tory manifestation be- w
came apparent. Yells, shouts of "Yah, Pi
yah," hisses, bootings, and groans then p
broke out. Lord Hartington passed by B!
with a haughty smile imprinted on his of
features. As Mr. Gladstone walked out of la
the "no" lobby with hise usual sedate de bI
meanor the storm raged with ten-fold vio- ci
lence. "Yeah,, yah," was repeated until the Fi
roof rang again. HIowls, derisive cheers, re
hisses, cat calls were continued as long as th
the right hen. member remained visible, Ti
and even until after be had passed from th
sight into the HIouse. As the Ltberal lead- re
era resumed their seats on their benches a TI
consultation on the extraordinary and in- of
sulting scene evidently took place between w,
them. They took no immediate notice, kt
however, of the demonstration, and in this, ot
perhaps, made a technical mistake. The in
time for bringing the outrage under the at
notice of tihe chair was immediately after cc
it was committed. The distinguished m
statesman who was subjected to this foul
outrage, however, felt reluctant to expose A
the nature of it, and it was only towards it
the end of the debate on the general ques- es
tioo that Mr. Gladstone frst, and Lord at
Hariongton afterwards, complainoed of the
scene in the lobby. Mr. Gladstone spoke
most temperately, describing the sounds
which issued from the Government lobby
as ironical cheers of a character that had
never before fallen within his experience.
Lord Hartington spoke with more spirit,
evidently feeling the insult to the veteran
statesman, his former leader, more than
that to himself. He roundly stated that
Mr. Gladstone underrated the character of
the demonstration by speaking of it as
"ironical cheering." "Howling," he said,
was the word which would better describe
it. To the regret of many members, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer sought to pal
liate the outrage by reterring the excited
feelings of his followers to their belief that
the right hon. gentleman meant to support
the motion of the member for Dangarvan,
but the excuse may be taken for what it is
worth.
BOME.
SOLEMN SERVICES IN HOLY WEEK
Correspondence Liverpool Catholic limes.
It would be a difficult task, indeed, to
give your readers even the moat faint
idea, under ench restrictions cf brevity as
I must observe in the limits of my letter,
of the Holy Week services in the Eternal
City. I shall, therefore, be obliged to pass
over numerous things which would be of
interest to your readers on that account.
Multitutes of people flocked to St. Peter's
on Palm Sunday, so that the passage across
the Bridge of St. Angelo was rendered ex
ceedingly difficult. I can hardly account
for this unusually immense concourse of
people, except that many had given ear
too readily to the reports which were
spread about on the day previous, to the
effect that his Holiness intended to receive
his palm at the balcony inside St. Peter's,
after which lie would give his blessing. A
large quantity of olive branches and palms
were placed before the altar of the Capella
Ginlia, many of the latter being elaborately
worked. The celebrant, he Eminence
Cardinal Borromeo, archpriest of the basi
lica, chanted the prayers of the benediction,
after which the choir, under the direction
of Chevalier Melazzi, sang the Sanctus to
muoeic of nis own composition. The dis
tribution of the blessed palms then took
place, during which the antiphon Pueri
Hebraorurm was sung. The procession was
then formed of bishops, prelates, and the
chapter, preceded by the choir, and made
the whole circuit of the vast basilica. Oa
their return to the chapel, the Passion was
Rung by three cannons, and the part of the
Synagogue by select members of the Papal
choir. The Offertory piece, and Benedictus
after the Elevation, were beautiful in the
extreme-both compositions of Chevalier
-elazzi.
On Weduesday, Thursday, and Friday
evenings the oflie of Tenebra was sung in
almost every Church in Rome, but most i
Romans, and certainly all strangers, visited
St. Peter's to hear the world-famed La
,entationr. The Cardinalarchpriest with
the bishops and chapter attached to the
Basilica, entered the Capella Giulia about
I o'clock, and the office began with the
singing of the antiphion by the choir, fol
owed by the three pealms in plain chant. I
The Lamentations were of different mas
ters esae, evening, with full choir, but those I
on the Iast evening, by Guglietmi, were
especially beautiful, the Jerusalem at the
and of the third being extremely effective. I
At the end of the third nocturn the Bene
lictus was burg in plain chant, and the
Miscrere, which iollowed, to the music of
Guglielmnii.
I shadl pass over the Mass of Maundy
Thursday, and but simply state. for the
i; trt-rst of all lovers of plain clihnt, that
the Credo in plain chant without the organ
presenrrd so sad a contrast with the Gloria,
that for tle few mou.ents it lasted, St. a
Peter's seered to be quite changed. After
the Communion of the celebrant, all pres
mt received Holy Communion from his
anids, after which a lighted taper was
iven to each, and the procession formed
o accompany the Blessed Sacrament to
re altar prepared for the sepulchre, during
which the Pange lingua was beautifully
uno. alternate verses by the choir, replied
:o bt the chapter and people. It would be
almost impossible to describe the effect pro- j
naced by the procession passing up the vast
basilica, and the hundreds of lights adorn
ng the altar for the Exposition. All the
nuge windows are darkened, to add to the
iffect; thus the basilica receives no other
light than that which it receives from this
sitar. Certainly it is a sight which, when
seen, is never forgotten. The chapter
then retire from the chapel of the sepulchre,
and accompanied by the Cardinal Arch
priest proceed in procession to the high °
Iltar. Four of the canons, vested in t'
plain cotate and black stoles, commence
the spoliation of the altar, alter which wire e
and water is poured over it, emblematic of e
he blood and water which flowed from the I
iacred side of our Lord. In the meantime, b
a small brush of a particular kind, made °
row the shavings of a special wood, is b
presented to each, in size according to the
ignity of the person. The. Cardinal "
Archpriest leads the procession, and is the
iret to sweep the wine and water over the
iltar, and is followed by the bishops, then
'he prelates of the chapter, afterwards the P
relates invited to take part in the func
ion, then the chapter itself, followed by the 5
Vatican Birminary. during which tie C
eautiful antiphon C'hristus factusr est pro o
obis, obecdiens usi8e ad mrortem rs sung by
he choir. t
The most interesting function at S. o
Peter's on Good Friday is the benediction
ith the relies. In the Basilica of St.
Peter's are preserved some of the most
orecions relics of the Passion of our
Bleased Lord, namely, a very large piece
f the sacred wood of the True Cross, the
ance of St. Longinns, which pierced the
blessed aide of our Lard, and the bandker
hief of St. Veronica, on which His Sacred
"ace was miraculously imprinted. These
elics are exposed during the whole day at
he Loggie under the cupola, and after
enerbrw the benediction takes place. At d
he sound of the rattle (for no bells are C
aung from the Gloria in the Mass of Maundy
rhursday to that of Holy Saturday) one
f the canone issues forth on the Loggle,
wben the faithful immediately go on their
,uesa. A profound silence reigns through- o
ut the basilica, and is broken only by the 1
ucessant buzzing of miabehaved Protest
ant visitors, who have not the con tesy to
rease their conversation at so soeulemn a
urinicit.
The devotions of thie Three Hours'
.gony were performed with great solemno
ty this year, his Holiness having granted
,ecial indulgences to all those who should
ttend them. At the Church of St. Mar
eellno, in the Corso. the devoeteos of 
Lady of the Seven Doloars were
with very great pomp, and at lte trs
choice music was song by the choir.
The general ordination at the Church a
St. John Lateran on Holy Saturdsay w
extremely beautiful. The function c
meoned at 6:30 a. m. dud did not te0r
until 2 o'clock p. m. The process ion
the blessing of the seared ire cress
square of St. John's to the baptliste
a magnificent sight. It was .headed
priest carrying the immnse Pasehal
followed by the choir singing the
icout cerous." Then game the
numbering forty-seven for minor
twenty-eight for the sub-dlaonsa,
many for the diaconate, and tbrt
for the priesthood, all vested in site
with the dalmatics thrown over thei
Then followed the clerics and chaplan
the basilica with the chapter, and I
the ordaining bishop, his Eminence
cal Monaco La Valletta. But the a
imposing sight of all is the mo
when the bishop and ministers, with a
wards of eighty ecclesiastices who recei4
the sacred orders, are prostrate before
altar, while two voices obant the Litany
the Saints. The sudden introduetion
the organ and music and the change of 5h
violet vestments for white in the
lights upthe face of every one, epeeii
of those who are that morning to conse.
crate themselves to God. A thrill of joy
runs through the heart of all. A sight
this kind makes one feel that he is reall
in the Eternal City, and the Catholfe
Church to be the one, -true, and holy
Chutch of God.
FO UNDLING HOSPITALS IN FRANC -
A bill is now before the Frenoh Parliament
which proposes to solve the question of infant
abandonment by reverting to the speoles of r.
volving box, or tour, which, since the time of
St. Vincent de Paul, has beefan lostitution in
most Catholic countries. The measure is
strenuously urgsdby the Academy of Medleine,
and it has called forth a maes of-ominous sta.
tietios, which indicate that the present method
of dealing with children deserted by their par.
ents-not only in Catholic France bnt in Pro
testant countries generally--is open to serious
objections.
In order to guage the effeaot of the two sye.
tems upon the morals anhd well-being of a ron.
munity, let us see what the socalled tour proe
oisely is, and under what conditions recourse is
had to it. This receptacle is a box or basket,
disposed as a cradle, and turning on a pivotina
the slit of a wall. pertaining usually to a found
ling hospital. We may add that the aperture
is commonly placed at a secluded and easil
accessible point of the building, and here, bys.
turn of the wrist, the child deposited in the
receiver is transferred to the warm tempera.
tore of the interior, where it receives prompt
attention. In this way it is obvious that safely
and secrecy are assured. A needy mother, us.
able to provide for her offspring, is not rme
trained from seeking succor by a sense of
shame, while the child escapes the exposure
and privation which its desertion in the street,
after the manner practised in England, most
frequently entail. The same spirit of single
hearted, unquestioning benevolence marks the
subsequent action of foundling hospitals where
the tour system prevails, no effort whatever
being made to discover a child's origin, but
every precaution being taken by an exact
registration of dates, and a careful preserva..
tion of clothes and trinkets, to promote any
subsequent voluntary attempt on the part of
parents to recover their offspring. In a word,
this institution of St. Vinocent de Paul was a,
work of pure benignity, based, it evl charity
was, upon the it jnction not to let the right.
hand ase what tie left bhand doeth. - Bat we
need not sy that admirable eleemosynary
schemes are not always salutary in their soelal
workings, and it was partly from an alleged
disser vice to the caueo of morality, and partly
from motives cf economy, that after 1830 the
tour system, or the reception of foundlings
wiihvot inquiry or oversight, was gradually
done away witl in France. Bat the new sys
tem bas worked each terrible evils thatit is
not at all enrprising that there should be an
almost universal demand for the establish-,
ment of the old tour system. A petition to
that end, signed by large numbersof the medi
cal fraternity has been reported on favorably
by a Committee ,f the Senate and a parlias.
mentary enquiry has been ordered.
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